Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has acquired all U.S. rights and Canadian ancillary rights to Jonathan Kasdan's teen romancer "The First Time," which debuted at Sundance in January. The "Friends With Benefits" team of Martin Shafer and Liz Glotzer produced the Kasdan-scripted pic, which was exec produced by Carol Fuchs and Liah Kim. Dylan O'Brien ("Teen Wolf") and Britt Robertson ("The Secret Circle") star as teens from different high schools who meet at a party.

Walt and Betty White, Gotha, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary March 11 with dinner and a family reunion at their home. They were married March 11, 1950, in Manheim, Pa. Their children are Christine Taylor, Gotha; Denise Ashcraft, Apopka; W. Craig White, Longwood; and Lois Morgan, Gotha. They have 10 grandchildren. He works for the Reedy Creek Improvement District. She works for Orange County Schools.

Sandra Bullock pitched in to wait on customers at the opening this week of her sister Gesine Prado's confectionery in Montpelier, Vt. Bullock, 41, says she wouldn't depend on the shop for a job but would work there "only when I need the money." Saying he was on a "mission to ignite peace," Carlos Santana played before a sold-out crowd at a Hiroshima, Japan, concert to mark the 60th anniversary of the world's first atomic-bomb attack. The concert was one of dozens of events the city is holding ahead of the memorial ceremony on Saturday.

I am sick and tired of the farce that the Democrats keep expecting us to watch. I am an independent voter, and I cannot believe the lengths this party is willing to go to. It is only going to generate disrespect for the Democratic Party. Selective county hand-counting will not seem very fair, honest or dignified to the nation. George W. Bush is our new president-elect, whether Al Gore litigates this forever. Only the lawyers and the news media win that way, and democracy is about the "rule of law.'' Gore should concede graciously.

Sandra Bullock pitched in to wait on customers at the opening this week of her sister Gesine Prado's confectionery in Montpelier, Vt. Bullock, 41, says she wouldn't depend on the shop for a job but would work there "only when I need the money." Saying he was on a "mission to ignite peace," Carlos Santana played before a sold-out crowd at a Hiroshima, Japan, concert to mark the 60th anniversary of the world's first atomic-bomb attack. The concert was one of dozens of events the city is holding ahead of the memorial ceremony on Saturday.

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has acquired all U.S. rights and Canadian ancillary rights to Jonathan Kasdan's teen romancer "The First Time," which debuted at Sundance in January. The "Friends With Benefits" team of Martin Shafer and Liz Glotzer produced the Kasdan-scripted pic, which was exec produced by Carol Fuchs and Liah Kim. Dylan O'Brien ("Teen Wolf") and Britt Robertson ("The Secret Circle") star as teens from different high schools who meet at a party.

First, Ben Stiller and his wife, Christine Taylor, co-starred in the comedy Zoolander. Now, they have another project in the works: their first child. The couple are expecting a baby, People magazine reports. Stiller's dad, comedian Jerry Stiller, confirms it: "He said, `You're going to be a grandfather.' I said, `I'm so glad, so happy, but I still have to learn my lines!' " Liz Hurley is expecting a baby in April with film producer Stephen Bing, her spokeswoman said Thursday. Hurley, who split with Brit actor Hugh Grant last year, is due in April.

Producers say the show will be ''more grounded'' this year, but Melrose Place promises more bizarre plot twists on its fifth season debut at 8 p.m. today on WOFL-Channel 35 and WOGX-Channel 51.For starters, Richard (Patrick Muldoon) isn't where Jane and Sydney (Josie Bissett, Laura Leighton) left him - underground, that is - in last season's finale. The episode also introduces new regular cast members: Rob Estes (Josie Bisset's real-life husband) and Lisa Rinna (Days of Our Lives) play a married couple transplanted from Boston.

"Aim low." That's the motto of the dodgeball team from the down-and-dirty Average Joe's gym. And that could also be the motto of the movie about that team, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. A crude-and-grungy comedy, it's in the disreputable tradition of such Farrelly brothers flicks as Kingpin and Dumb & Dumber, only it's not quite so lowdown. Dodgeball also bears a certain family resemblance to the grungy (and funny) Old School, especially since Vince Vaughn (the villain in Starsky & Hutch)

First, Ben Stiller and his wife, Christine Taylor, co-starred in the comedy Zoolander. Now, they have another project in the works: their first child. The couple are expecting a baby, People magazine reports. Stiller's dad, comedian Jerry Stiller, confirms it: "He said, `You're going to be a grandfather.' I said, `I'm so glad, so happy, but I still have to learn my lines!' " Liz Hurley is expecting a baby in April with film producer Stephen Bing, her spokeswoman said Thursday. Hurley, who split with Brit actor Hugh Grant last year, is due in April.

I am sick and tired of the farce that the Democrats keep expecting us to watch. I am an independent voter, and I cannot believe the lengths this party is willing to go to. It is only going to generate disrespect for the Democratic Party. Selective county hand-counting will not seem very fair, honest or dignified to the nation. George W. Bush is our new president-elect, whether Al Gore litigates this forever. Only the lawyers and the news media win that way, and democracy is about the "rule of law.'' Gore should concede graciously.

You can call him ''Al,'' and you can see a lot of him on the tube tonight.Vice President Al Gore is the subject of Biography (8 p.m. today, A&E), which traces the politician's ascent to the White House through interviews with old friends. Among the interviewees is actor Tommy Lee Jones, a college roomate of Gore's at Harvard.Jones paints this picture of the future vice president.''He loved to watch Star Trek. . . He always seemed busy doing something other than the work at hand. Then a week and a half before an exam or paper was due, he would put it all together and get an 'A.'''Gore is the first subject in Biography's ''You Can Call Me Al'' week.

Producers say the show will be ''more grounded'' this year, but Melrose Place promises more bizarre plot twists on its fifth season debut at 8 p.m. today on WOFL-Channel 35 and WOGX-Channel 51.For starters, Richard (Patrick Muldoon) isn't where Jane and Sydney (Josie Bissett, Laura Leighton) left him - underground, that is - in last season's finale. The episode also introduces new regular cast members: Rob Estes (Josie Bisset's real-life husband) and Lisa Rinna (Days of Our Lives) play a married couple transplanted from Boston.